A revised version of David Bowie’s Space Oddity, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station has been receiving quite a lot of attention over the last couple of days.
As a Bowie fan from way back I wasn’t sure how much I’d enjoy Hadfield’s version but it’s quite captivating. You can watch the video below.
A handful of words have been changed but it’s a fitting farewell from the commander as he leaves the International Space Station. It’s even received approval from David Bowie himself. On Bowie’s official Facebook page he says, “It’s possibly the most poignant version of the song ever created.”
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We said farewell to the ISS last night … for a while. It won’t be passing us for several days but it will be back.
I’m talking about the International Space Station. I get notifications on Twitter, thanks to Twisst ISS Alerts, telling me when the ISS will be orbiting across our skies and what direction to look to see it. The last few nights there’ve been some quite bright passes.
I was checking out some details of the space station last night. There are six crew members on board at the moment and the crew will change over next month. The entire structure is about the size of an American football field. No wonder we can still see it without a telescope from three hundred and fifty kilometres below.
I’m not sure that I’d like to be in space, orbiting the earth for weeks on end. I think I’m a lot happier standing in my backyard with the famiy watching the ISS passing by.
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We said farewell to the ISS last night … for a while. It won’t be passing us for several days but it will be back.